Books set in Latvia

Soviet Milk

Nora Ikstena

Soviet-occupied Latvia across two decades: a gifted Riga doctor is banished to run a rural clinic, and her daughter grows up between the flat dairy country of the countryside and the grey capital, as the occupation grinds on toward the independence that arrives with the map's final years. The map runs from Riga's Old Town out east and south into the farmland where the mother is exiled.

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